Derek Gabbard

Derek Gabbard is Chief Executive Officer at Lookingglass Cyber Solutions. Prior to Lookingglass, Gabbard was Chief Technology Officer at Soteria Network Technologies. Gabbard also served as Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the world-renowned CERT® at Carnegie Mellon University. Gabbard is a 1995 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and is currently an MS candidate in Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University.

Recent articles by Derek Gabbard

The Coreflood botnet was able to operate continuously due to the lack of accountability of Service Providers and lack of visibility into their networks. How can we understand what's happening and reduce our risk?

An "Internet Kill Switch” has flashed into popular discussion with the recent events in Egypt and the debate over proposed legislation, “Cyber Security and American Competitiveness Act of 2011”. So what does the term mean, what does it look like, and can it be really be done?

What’s Driving the Need to Share Threat Data? Just as firefighters, police officers, and federal authorities have had to learn to communicate and work better together, so too do cyber first responders.

When experts consider modern cyber attacks they are traditionally focused on denial of service (DDoS), global botnet, and DNS hi-jack attacks. We're starting to see anomalies with the Internet’s core protocol, BGP, that may be just as disruptive, with the potential to be even worse.

In the world of information security during the ‘good old days’ of the late 1990s, enterprise boundaries were enterprise boundaries and operational risk to infrastructure was relatively easy to define, track, assess and remediate.